Friday the Eleventh of January

"Each of the 88 card names has one letter emphasized in bold. Below the name, each card has 0-3 dots to suggest a point value, with rarer letters having more points."(filed under: gamescardshackingcats) (via: zarba)

Friday the Fourth

"Individual workers each focused on a specific compositional element—background details, or eyes, or trees—dutifully painting their part and then passing the canvas along the chain."(filed under: artillusionschina)

Thursday the Twentieth

"After hoverboards started exploding in 2016 and Amazon became more vigilant about safety claims, sellers started buying each other’s products, setting them on fire, and posting photos in the reviews."(filed under: internetshoppingliesscams)

Friday the Thirtieth of November

"...a 50,000-word stage play generated from the English example sentences given in late 19th and early 20th century European phrasebooks. Among a cast of seventeen, each character is assigned their own phrasebook and will only use verbatim sentences from it in their speech."(filed under: nanogenmolanguagecreations)

Wednesday the Twenty-First

"Each mound is composed of approximately 50 cubic meters of soil that required the excavation of over 10 km3 of earth, equivalent to ∼4000 great pyramids of Giza — making this the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by a single insect species."(filed under: insectshistoryarchitectureemergence) (via: zarba)

"I favor puzzles from pre-digital years, when the picture was typically a photograph of a single subject, such as a galloping horse or a ballerina or the Empire State Building."(filed under: artmutationpuzzles)